International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems (COINE), co-located with AAMAS 2026

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Program

IMPORTANT: The schedule times are in Cyprus time (Eastern European Summer Time, UTC+3)

9h00 - 9h05 Welcome and Opening
9h05 - 10h15 Session 1: Organizations and Governance
9h05 - 9h20 Exploring Measures of Agentic Power for Organisational Workflow Structures
Andrea Marino, L. Thomas van Binsbergen, Tom van Engers, Giovanni Sileno
9h20 - 9h35 Governing AI Economic Agency: A Coupled Design Space (Blue Sky)
Elsa Donnat
9h35 - 9h45 Agent Contracts: A Formal Framework for Resource-Bounded Autonomous AI Systems
Qing Ye, Jing Tan
9h45 - 10h00 LLM-augmented Empirical Game Theoretic Simulation for Social-Ecological Systems
Jennifer Shi, Christopher K. Frantz, Christian Kimmich, Saba Siddiki, Atrisha Sarkar
10h00 - 10h15 Why Open Source? A Game-Theoretic Analysis of the AI Race
Andjela Mladenovic, Aaron Courville, Gauthier Gidel
10h15 - 11h00 Coffee Break
11h00 - 12h30 Session 2: Norms, Values, and Policies
11h00 - 11h15 Large Language Models Exhibit Normative Conformity
Mikako Bito, Keita Nishimoto, Kimitaka Asatani, Ichiro Sakata
11h15 - 11h30 Anticipatory Thinking in Normative Contexts
Jomi Fred Hubner, Elena Yan, Luis Gustavo Nardin, Olivier Boissier
11h30 - 11h45 Constraint-driven abductive explanations as a mechanism for reflective normative reasoning
Nathan Lloyd, Peter R. Lewis
11h45 - 12h00 CAVA: Contextual Argumentation for Value-based Assessment
Jack Alexander McKinlay, Janina Anna Hoffmann, Andreas Theodorou, Marina De Vos
12h00 - 12h15 Social norm dynamics in a behavioral epidemic model
Christos Charalambous
12h15 - 12h30 Robust Policy Design in Agent-Based Simulators using Adversarial Reinforcement Learning
Akash Agrawal, Joel Dyer, Aldo Glielmo, Michael J. Wooldridge
12h30 - 14h00 Lunch Break
14h00 - 14h45 Keynote
To be announced
Pinar Yolum
14h45 - 15h30 Session 3: Ethics and Responsibility
14h45 - 15h00 Filling Causal Responsibility Gaps in Spatial Interactions using Feasible Action-Space Reduction by Groups
Vassil Guenov, Ashwin George, Arkady Zgonnikov, David A. Abbink, Luciano Cavalcante Siebert
15h00 - 15h10 Ethical Non-Closure Under Agentication: Why Action-Level Frameworks Fail for Trajectory-Producing Systems (Blue Sky)
Matthew Stewart
15h10 - 15h20 Benchmarking Machine Ethics (Blue Sky)
Louise A. Dennis, Marija Slavkovik, Xin Quan
15h20 - 15h30 Bayesian Game-Theoretic Modeling of Pedestrian-Autonomous Vehicle Interaction (Short Paper)
Dae-Hyun Yoo, Marija Slavkovik
15h30 - 16h15 Coffee Break
16h15 - 17h45 Session 4: Trust, Privacy, and Explainability
16h15 - 16h25 Theoretical and Empirical Evidence for Trust in Embodied Agents: Integrating Conscious Agent Theory and Computational Trust Models (Short Paper)
Kevin Babashov, Maria Gini
16h25 - 16h40 Privacy for Everyone: Learning to Respect Privacy in Multi-party Content Sharing
Hüseyin Aydın, Alper Demir, Pinar Yolum
16h40 - 16h55 Reframing Interpretability, Transparency, and Explainability for Multi-Agent Systems
Jessica Woodgate, Daniel Collins, Yining Yuan, Nirav Ajmeri
16h55 - 17h05 Perspectives on the Explanation of Organizations in Multi-Agent Systems (Blue Sky)
Elena Yan, Luis Gustavo Nardin, Alessandro Ricci, Samuele Burattini, Guillaume Muller, Jomi Fred Hubner, Jaime Simão Sichman, Olivier Boissier
17h05 - 17h30 Reflections (Topics to be finalized) and Closing Session